I have a spreadsheet in gnumeric 1.7.9 with relatively large text cells that contain html. I need to strip non-printing characters from the text cells so used the clean function and then did a copy/paste as value to get everything in plain text in another cell. What's happening is confusing me totally - some blank spaces between words are getting removed so some of the text is run together, but now it's also stripping blank spaces from the html which is totally destroying the content. This is a new install of 1.7.9. I just upgraded to Mandriva 2007.1 and gnome 2.18.0 yesterday which installed gnumeric 1.7.9, but I had similar problem with the earlier version of gnumeric which wasn't as bad. Before it would just selectively remove blank spaces within the text area and I could catch it with a spell check but it left the html commands alone. Now it strips all the blank spaces from the html and still selectively stripping blank spaces in the text.
Is a blank space now considered a non-printing character? I thought it was supposed to remove stuff like carriage returns and line feeds. Am I just using the wrong copy/paste? I've been using paste as value. Is there something else I should be doing instead of the clean function? The html was created using Composer in Seamonkey. I've tried searching the mailing list and come up blank. I've searched google and come up blank. There's nothing in bugzilla. For some reason I do not understand at all I cannot search gnomesupport.org; all I get is a blank page no matter what term I search for. I can't even ask anyone there why I get no results because all I get is a blank web page when I try to register. And I tried using 4 web browsers so I'm totally at a loss with that too. Honey _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
